Pubs of 2014

Right, here we go...... The purpose of this blog is to log all the pubs that I have visited and consumed an alcoholic beverage in during 2014. The rules are quite simple, the establishment needs to be a public house, it sounds straightforward but it may get complicated for example things that wouldn't count are a visit to the bar at the cricket, a pre gig drink in a concert venue, a drink at the Birmingham German market etc. As judge and jury my decision is final, and if I'm in any doubt I won't count it.



My prediction as at the start of the year is that the final number will be somewhere around the 200 mark though I won't go to pubs just to get the numbers up, it will be a true reflection of my pub visting year.



My posts will include information about the pub, the ambience of the surroundings, the choice and quality of the beer, any interesting or amusing anecdotes about my visit and, where possible, photographic evidence.



I will try and keep the information as accurate as possible noting that alcohol consumption means that at times this may prove difficult !!



The format of the posts is simple, the first visit to the pub will be the blog entry and that post will be updated for any subsequent visit.



Hope you enjoy it...



Cheers

UPDATE January 2015

Right, that's it, it's finally finished, some 259 pubs later !! It's been hard work but it's nice being able to look back and relive the drinking experiences of 2014.

I am pleased with the final result and whilst I've been reviewing it, I have actually laughed a few times at my own jokes !!

A word of warning, it does start off a bit slow (some of my posts from Bath are a bit dull) but stick with it. In hindsight the format of posting repeat visits to a pub on the original post at times doesn't work very well when reading the blog in its' entirety but on the whole I'm pleased with it and I hope that you enjoy it.

I have stated this in the blog but I will say it again, thanks to anyone that I have had a beer with in 2014 and special thanks to Shelley for her patience !!







Sunday, 23 November 2014

The Greyhound

I can remember very little about the previous pub, on our Lichfield pub crawl, the Earl of Lichfield, I can remember even less about the last pub The Greyhound which isn't very good when you are compiling a blog about pubs that you have visited !! Bar intoxication (possibly brought on by lack of food) I'm not even sure what my excuses are !!

These are the facts as I remember them. This wasn't the pub that we were originally heading for, all I remember is that we left the Earl of Lichfield and kept walking, from memory our mate Gray was moaning about the distance but we kept going despite his protests. We ended up at a pub on the main drag that looked okayish, given the fact that it was near to the bus station and it wasn't long before our bus was due, I thought that it seemed like a good choice in an I'm all right Jack stylee !!

The walls of the pub were decorated with record sleeves though I can hardly remember what was featured, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Bob Marley's Exodus were definitely there as was a 1980's Rob Stewart album but that's about it. I wouldn't mind but that sort of thing is normally pub blog manna from heaven for me. What a woeful performance. Maybe I was ill !!

What is even more shocking is that I can't be absolutely certain as to what I was drinking, I'm pretty sure it was my old favourite Jennings Cumberland ale but you could tell me that I actually had a Cumberland sausage and I'd have to believe you !!

I can't even remember why Shelley was wearing spectacles, whose spectacles they were, what she was looking at, or why on earth I felt it worthy of a photograph?!!..



Mercifully it was only a brief visit to The Greyhound so, as our bus was imminent, we left the pub with the speed of trap two in the 8.17 at Hall Green after saying our goodbyes and stopping for a brief snap outside...



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